​Many years ago David Quigley, the creator of Alchemical Hypnotherapy, developed a unique approach to utilizing the Tarot, one that combines the principles of modern Hypnosis with ages-old Tarot technology.  He perfected the technology over many years in his own private practice with clients, and with students of his professional certification trainings.
David now shares this technology through a popular 4-hour experiential workshop live on Zoom, where participants delve deeply into the practice and techniques of this captivating modality.  The workshop provides a valuable opportunity to experience the transformative power of this fascinating practice firsthand.  And today it's offered LIVE online to a global audience through www.bridges.academy
Alchemical Tarot is a powerful tool for all who seek a glimpse of their deepest inner world. The workshop content is designed for hypnotherapists but is open to anyone with a genuine interest in Alchemical Hypnosis, the Tarot and personal growth.  It is usually offered twice yearly at most (and is also one segment in the Advanced Psychic Development program.)
No background or previous experience with the Tarot required.

Each has a unique purpose:

1. Keltic Cross (With guidance for each card position in the layout)
2. Telephone Number (For answers to “How do I achieve ___?”)
3. New Directions (“Should I do this, or that… or?”)
4. Couples Tarot Spread (For couples at a challenge in their relationship)

Time: 9 am to 1 pm Pacific, live on Zoom
Limited to 10 participants
Investment: $100 includes Workbook (repeat students $50)   
Recordings: Unedited replay video is available for $25 but only to participants who attend
Have a deck of Tarot cards with you at this workshop.  (Any richly illustrated Tarot deck.)

The powerful Alchemical Tarot method invites us uncover practical solutions using one of the 4 Tarot spreads demonstrated in this workshop, and to communicate in trance with the characters and symbols on the Tarot cards to uncover their hidden meaning.

​Here’s one example of how the Alchemical Tarot methods can be integrated with a client:  As you help your client to enter each card in an alert trance state, they ‘become’ the important figure for that card and you help them discover the unique meaning of this card for them.  The practitioner then places the client’s felt sense of the card into the context of the client's question and the position of the card in the Tarot spread to determine the actual meaning of the card, a meaning that is customized or unique to this client. 
Personally experience how this is done at this workshop.

Participating in this workshop offers several benefits, including:

• Gaining a deeper and firsthand understanding of Alchemical Tarot and its potential for personal transformation
• Discovering and experiencing practical techniques and approaches to guide clients through the Alchemical Tarot process
• Enhancing your toolbox of hypnotherapy skills, to incorporate Alchemical Tarot into your professional practice
• Continuing Education Units for hypnotherapists
• Connecting with like-minded professionals and expanding your professional network

Alchemical Tarot offers a unique and powerful approach to unlocking the secrets of our subconscious mind, inviting us to embark on a journey of discovery and transformation. By engaging directly with the symbols and characters in the Tarot we can uncover the hidden meaning and wisdom that lies within, empowering us to take control of our lives and pursue our personal growth goals.  Experiential:  The Alchemical Tarot Workshop provides a valuable opportunity to experience the transformative power of this fascinating practice firsthand.
To register for the next Alchemical Tarot workshop with David Quigley, click here 

​Harnessing the power of dreams to tap into inner strength and transform lives.
With David Quigley, creator of Alchemical Hypnotherapy

​Alchemical Dreamwork is a powerful and transformative technique that has been gaining popularity in recent years due to its ability to help individuals dive deep into their subconscious mind and access valuable insights.
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​By utilizing the art of dream analysis and hypnotherapy, this unique practice allows individuals to explore their dreams and unlock a deeper understanding of themselves. 

​Jungian Analysis and Alchemy: The roots of Alchemical Dreamwork can be traced back to the pioneering work of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, who recognized the profound connection between the ancient practice of alchemy and the human psyche. Jung believed that dreams, like alchemical processes, hold the key to our inner transformation and self-realization. Through active imagination and engaging with the archetypes within our dreams, we can unlock the secrets of our subconscious and achieve personal growth.
David Quigley and Alchemical Hypnotherapy: Building on Jung's insights, David Quigley developed a unique approach to dreamwork that combines the principles of alchemy with the techniques of modern hypnosis. This powerful method invites us to enter our dreams directly through hypnosis, allowing us to communicate with the characters and symbols within our dreams and uncover their hidden meaning.

​Traditional dream analysis often relies on the therapist's personal theories and the client's analytical interpretations to decipher the meaning of a dream. In contrast, Alchemical Dreamwork uses specific hypnotic induction methods to guide the client into a deep trance state where they can directly interact with the dream's characters and situations. This experiential approach allows for a more accurate and meaningful understanding of the dream's messages and can lead to profound personal transformation.

​Step 1 - Entering the Dream:  The first step in alchemical dreamwork is to enter the dream state through a deep but alert trance. Using a specific induction method, the hypnotherapist guides the client into a state of deep relaxation and heightened awareness, allowing them to access their subconscious mind and re-enter the dream world.
Step 2 - Exploring the Dream: Once inside the dream, the client is encouraged to explore their surroundings and interact with the characters and symbols they encounter. By engaging with these elements directly, the client can gain insights into the dream's meaning through feelings, words and images.
Step 3 - Communicating with Dream Characters: ​A key feature of Alchemical Dreamwork is the practice of communicating with the entities or characters found within the dream. By dialoguing with these figures, the client can uncover the underlying issues and challenges that the dream is attempting to communicate.
Step 4 - Uncovering the Dream's Meaning: As the client interacts with the dream characters, they may discover connections to their current life situations or even past traumas. By examining these links, the practitioner can help the client uncover the true meaning of the dream and identify the mental or emotional challenges that need to be addressed.
Step 5: Transformative Hypnotic Techniques: Once the dream's meaning has been revealed, the hypnotherapy practitioner can apply a range of proven hypnotic techniques to help the client process and integrate the insights gained from the dreamwork. These techniques may include guided visualization, inner child work, or the use of positive affirmations, depending on the specific needs of the client.

For those interested in experiencing the transformative power of Alchemical Dreamwork firsthand, David Quigley, the creator of Alchemical Hypnotherapy, offers a 4-hour workshop live on Zoom through www.bridges.academy that delves deep into the practice and techniques of this captivating modality. The workshop is designed for hypnotherapists but is open to anyone with a genuine interest in Alchemical Hypnosis, dreamwork and personal growth. 
​It is usually offered twice yearly at most, and is also one segment in the Advanced Psychic Development program.

Workshop Details
·        Time: 9 am to 1 pm Pacific
·        Limited to 10 participants
·        Investment: $100 includes Workbook (repeat students $50)   
·        Recordings: Unedited replay video is available for $25 but only to participants who attend

​Immersive, experiential and interactive, during the workshop you'll learn about the history and foundations of Alchemical Dreamwork, as well as how to guide clients through the process of active imagination and dream exploration. You'll also discover how to apply hypnotic techniques to facilitate personal transformation and healing based on the insights gained from the Alchemical Dreamwork process.

​Participating in this workshop offers several benefits, including:

• Gaining a deeper understanding of Alchemical Dreamwork and its potential for personal transformation
• Learning and experiencing practical techniques and approaches for guiding clients through the Alchemical Dreamwork process
• Hypnotherapists:  Enhancing your toolbox of hypnotherapy skills, empowering you to serve clients with the Alchemical Dreamwork process in your professional practice
• 4 hours Continuing Education Units for hypnotherapists
• Connecting with like-minded professionals and expanding your professional network

Alchemical Dreamwork offers a unique and powerful approach to unlocking the secrets of our subconscious mind, inviting us to embark on a journey of self-discovery, healing, and transformation. By engaging directly with the symbols and characters within our dreams, we can uncover the hidden meaning and wisdom that lies within, empowering us to take control of our lives and pursue our personal growth goals.  
Experiential:  The Alchemical Dreamwork workshop provides a valuable opportunity to experience the transformative power of this fascinating practice firsthand.  And it's offered LIVE online to a global audience!
To register for the next Alchemical Dreamwork workshop click here https://www.bridges.academy/alchemicaldreamwork2.html
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By David A. Wheatley
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​There are many things in the public consciousness right now that concern us all. Probably close to or at the top is whether the US will default on its debt as June approaches. The circumstances are all in place for it to go either way in the political sphere and in the astrological sphere. But I think there are sufficient astrological circumstances to argue against there being a problem that politicians can’t resolve or at least avoid creating a crisis over the national debt now. The minimum we usually have grown to accept is that they postpone doing anything radical to a later date.
The political voices on the right are trying to use pressure over the possible default to extract concessions in the budget, a separate matter. Their problem is equating apples with oranges; paying the nation’s past due bills is not the same as arguing over future spending. This last point seems too rational to doubt, but being rational is not what it takes to win in politics.
​The game is played differently by either side, by two different sets of rules, and because they are different the conversation strains to work its way to a resolution. The only thing that compels them towards avoiding a crisis is the looming upcoming election season: self-interest. This sounds like a criticism, but self-interest to be honest is a shared trait. If only we could expand our definition of self to include others with whom we interdependently exist. 

​However, all that aside, astrological influences are the patterns we unconsciously follow from our psyche; the national psyche as well as the personal psyche. We can’t help but to navigate along their paths in front of us.  They are strongly reinforced by the behavior and choices of everyone else in the world and we don’t individually run the place, life is a shared experience with shared influences good and bad. 

​Pluto famously finally left Capricorn in March, barely getting a toe in Aquarius. It’s been hovering at zero degrees and some minutes of that sign and now sits almost stationary as it prepares to retrograde back into Capricorn to complete all the things it stirred up while there over the past two decades. Pluto in Capricorn worked through big government, corporate power, religious power, powerful autocrats and self-declared influencers. Pluto in Aquarius is going to be very different; it will work with collectives. 

​Over the coming years Pluto in Aquarius in my opinion will see the end of self-styled pyramid structured power and the construction of many voices where there had been one or a few. The negative is a possible lack of coordination and a need to innovate to make things happen better, and the positive is a variety of structures that are not all the same tailored to the regions in which they form. One size does not fit all. 

​This won’t happen because people want to share power; that goes against the nature of most of those who have power now. It comes about from the inefficiency and old world plodding of power brokers disconnected from the people they had power over. Aquarian air sign innovation is going to revolutionize without having a war, but it will come under the force of Pluto which is to say we hardly have a choice. We have to evolve or get wiped out. This might sound exciting to some, but it’s terrifying to those who prefer to live in a world where they are told what to do and things seldom change. 

​Circumstances will force us to adapt within the next two years as Pluto fully enters Aquarius. Some of the standby support systems in a crisis, for example FEMA, won’t be able to get where the problem is and local authorities will have to take matters into their own hands. On a social playing field, State governments are going the way of carving out their educational systems and many other social norms by legislative mandate different from existing Federal or national standards. The result will eventually be people will gravitate to live in States or Countries where the society is shaped more as they want their environment to be. This kind of shift will happen all over the world for better and for worse. Pluto has two decades to see how this works, or doesn’t work and needs refinement. 

​With that in mind, it might fit to entertain the idea that the US is about to have an economic crisis over its budget. The breakdown of the power structure by crippling the economic power of the national ID. As I said though, Pluto has two decades to work on this. I don’t think this will happen now. There are many people in a position to express this Pluto designed breakdown within the existing structure of power. They are willing to go over the cliff for the buzz of the free fall without worrying over the landing as if, like Wiley Coyote, they can dust themselves off and try again. I can see the US economic influence on world economies being forced to endure a change through crisis, but I don’t think it will at this time. 

​Saturn entered Pisces in March as Pluto barely and briefly entered Aquarius. Saturn will stay in Pisces, a sobering influence. Saturn brings some stark realities to where Neptune and recently Jupiter have been. Saturn definitely tends to take the rose-colored glasses off and asks for responsible address to problems which are in need of being exposed. It’s the moment in an individual’s life when they realize, "Damn, this doesn’t work, I do need to see a therapist."   

​In the times prior to Saturn entering Aquarius, any preparations or advancements that could have been made to prepare for what the psyche knew was coming (Saturn in Pisces) pay dividends for those who meet their professional standards or even exceeded them. But for those who got side tracked or lazy, Saturn in Pisces is indeed when it’s time to go through the mess and attempt to sort it out. This is good for facing up to budgetary obligations on both sides, being realistic about having them or reducing them, and being realistic about meeting them. Saturn in Pisces isn’t about the fantasies, it’s about what is possible to do. 

​The main reason why I think the US will pay its bills and end up in tough budget negotiations is because Jupiter enters Taurus mid-May AND Saturn is in Pisces. Might as well toss in Venus enters Cancer too, another attractive reason in the US chart as well as a general influence for everyone to feel optimistic and positive that we aren’t going off the cliff, not yet anyway. Taurus resonates with the Second house of material values, appreciation of the home as a nurturing healthy place. It generally favors financial affairs though one can be carried away with it, borrow to buy today and promise to pay on Tuesday but have trouble doing so later. Agreements can be made with Jupiter flying in to save us, though we have to count on Saturn to temper them with what’s really possible. Jupiter in transit now is going to sextile Saturn; they can work together now. Jupiter is going to be sextile transiting Venus as it enters Cancer, and this all feels pretty reassuring. A good group on the New Moon coming May 19th. A new start.

​In the US chart, Jupiter is moving into the 5th House. This is a very positive placement for now. Jupiter inflates the intentions of heading in a celebratory direction, not a wake. It can be a little divorced from reality here in the US, which wouldn’t be out of character, and especially with Venus moving into Cancer which in the US chart is a seventh house rendezvous with natal Venus, Jupiter and the Sun. The New Moon on May 19th which follows two powerful eclipses in the prior month is trine (positively aspected) to transiting Pluto.

​All these conditions are temporary though, so the good feeling which can come from this period won’t last forever. For real, Pluto will back into Capricorn in June to finish up its business and be done with Capricorn in November by 2024. As with all the court cases hanging over Trump, the autocrats in the world will all face the firing squad of changing times. Big centralized power is going to either evolve into something more power-sharing or go away. For those who gravitate to big daddy government, I am sorry. We will need each other more, to work together under pressure. Something more resembling a socialist form of government is coming though not by choice, but because groups of people organize differently, regionally and locally, by necessity. 

Some people say Pluto is not even a planet, it’s a large asteroid. A planetoid. That’s fine, asteroids are significant. It isn’t about the physical size. In the psyche there is no physical, so physical size only has a value as a symbol of expression in the physical universe. As a major organ if you will of the psyche-body, Pluto is huge, bigger than Jupiter. We should measure the size of a planet and its influence by how slow it moves and Pluto is the slowest, excepting Planet Nine. When planets go stationary and then retrograde, they move at their slowest and therefore are at their most potent. As slow as it is all the time, Pluto is stationary and soon will retrograde back into Capricorn. In the next 18 months it will wrap up its two decades of work in Capricorn.  

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